Empowerment
power and confidence in sexual encounters; self-love, self-care, self-compassion
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Her First Jupiter Return
Yesterday was my mommy-versary. On this day 12 years ago, I gave birth to a little me. I gave birth to my own personal do over. I gave birth to my chance to get it right. On so many levels, …
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Close Your Legs
“Close your legs,” she scolded. She said it so forcefully, it frightened me. I curled into the fetal position, snatching my dress down over my summer tanned legs. She said it so forcefully, I just knew I had committed a …
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Sluts have standards, too
This is something I’ve wanted to talk about for some time now. First off, I’m such a fan of the slut movement, however I must confess I am not a fan of the word itself. It’s not a word that …
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To Love Blackness
At 3:03 am and I’m wide AWAKE listening to My Uzi from The God Box album. I have many perspectives of my blackness and even still my perspective is limited simply because I do not have the experience of being …
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Twerk is International
When I was in second grade, I won my first twerk contest. Yes, you read that correctly. I doubt I had anything to twerk, but I definitely had the technique down packed. My friends and I loved to twerk. They …
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When did you first recognize you needed consent?
The first time I knew I needed consent. It was May 2013. I had received a judicial order to return to my residential state that accused me of endangering my children and removing them without parental consent. In the months …
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To Be a Sex Positive Parent
I strive to raise sex positive children and as much as I strive for this, the reality is I donāt really know how. Contrary to what this blog may project…I am not a sex expert. The idea of being sex …
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Why My Sex Positivity is Not without Fear, Shame, or Trauma.
Sex positivity, like social justice, like self-care, is becoming a catch phrase that is being used sometimes loosely and without a multifaceted understanding of the phraseās function. Frequently, sex-positivity is often used to categorize or define free spirited, and fun …
